Deleted file list in DMS

[Former Member]

Hi sap gurus,

How can I see deleted files list in DMS.

Cheers,

Krishna

[christoph_hopf]

Hi Krishna,

if you mean the display of documents which are marked for deletion, you can use report MCDOKDEL in transaction SE38. Please use this report in test mode to display only the list of marked documents. Otherwise this report will permanently remove the marked documents.

If you are talking about deleted originals, please note that there is no such report as originals are completely deleted from database tables if you press the 'DELETE' button in transaction CV02N.

Best regards,

Christoph

[Former Member]

Hi Christoph,

I have same problem in DMS. A document has been deleted. I am investigating ,who has deleted the document.

Is your answer still same. Because in near future I might need to delete some document for some valid reason.

Deleting the document deletes the history.

Could you please advise other way of doing it. So that we don't lose history.

Ankur

[christoph_hopf]

Hi Ankur,

in DMS there are only two possible ways for this kind of issue:

1. set deletion indicator

In transaction CV02N you can set the deletion indicator for a document info record. This will limit the range of possible functionalities for this document info record. Because the system is checking if the deletion indicator is set and then raises error messages sometimes. These error messages always tell the user that this is not possible as the document is marked for deletion.

However you can see this info record still in the DMS transactions. Also the history remains.

2. delete document by MCDOKDEL

If you execute this report then all the documents with deletion indicator are really deleted from the database tables. This means also that the history and change log are deleted for this document info record too. Otherwise a lot of database space would left filled. So if you use also report MCDOKDEL then all the document info record related data will be deleted completely.

I hope this information will be usefull for you.

Best regards,

Christoph

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[Former Member]

Hi Christoph,

Thanks for your reply and time spent for answering the query.

Regards

Ankur